Keeping Tradition

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Keeping Tradition
Keeping Tradition - album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released1993
Recorded8–10 December 1992
StudioPlus XXX Studios, Paris, France
Genre Jazz
Length57:00
Label Verve 519 607-2
Producer Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology
In Montreux
(1992)		Keeping Tradition
(1993)		 Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver
(1995)
Professional ratings
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Keeping Tradition is a studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. The album was recorded in Paris and released in 1993 via Verve Records label. The album was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. [5] Keeping Tradition opens a series of her critically acclaimed titles, of which all but one, including her wildly successful double Grammy Award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Dear Ella , have received Grammy nominations. [6]

Contents

Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "After performing a wide variety of music (much of it commercial) for 15 years, in the mid-'80s Dee Dee Bridgewater returned to jazz... This set with her regular French quartet has Bridgewater exploring and swinging some of her favorite standards... This CD is highly recommended, as are all of Dee Dee Bridgewater's Verve recordings." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Just One of Those Things" Cole Porter 2:55
2."Fascinating Rhythm" George Gershwin 4:05
3."The Island" Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Alan and Marilyn Bergman 3:41
4."Angel Eyes" Matt Dennis, Earl Brent5:51
5."What Is This Thing Called Love?" Cole Porter 3:14
6."Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)" Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert 6:49
7."Medley: I'm a Fool to Want You / I Fall in Love Too Easily"Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra / Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn 4:10
8."Lullaby of Birdland" George Shearing, George David Weiss 7:04
9."What a Little Moonlight Can Do" Harry Woods 3:11
10."Love Vibrations" Horace Silver 5:38
11."Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Around a Pug-Nosed Dream)" Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke 5:23
12."Sister Sadie"Horace Silver4:37
Total length:57:00

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Keeping Tradition". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Hull, Tom. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz Diffs: 4th vs. 5th Editions". Tom Hull . Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  3. ↑ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 1885. ISBN   9780679768739 . Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 116. ISBN   978-1-85227-183-1 . Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "37TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS (1994)". Grammy Awards . grammy.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER". jazzaspensnowmass.org. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Yanow, Scott. "Keeping Tradition". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
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